AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), which helps enterprise customers plan migration projects by gathering information about their on-premises data centers, launched a Data Exploration feature. This new feature allows you to easily query data that ADS agents pull from your on-premises servers in one single location, giving you the opportunity to better assess and plan for your migration project.

Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) now supports object filtering based on S3 object tags. This allows you to identify individual objects using S3 object tags for automatic replication across AWS Regions for compliance and/or data protection.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 G3 instances are available in the Canada (Central) AWS Region.

The company continues to move beyond LEDs for general lighting and expands its laser-light-source offerings.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports node-to-node encryption, enabling organizations to host sensitive workloads with stringent security and compliance requirements. The node-to-node encryption capability provides an additional layer of security by implementing Transport Layer Security (TLS) for all communications between Elasticsearch instances in a cluster. It ensures that any data you send to your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain over HTTPS remains encrypted in-flight while it is being distributed and replicated between the nodes. Node-to-node encryption complements existing features provided by the service such as HTTPS client to cluster encryption, at-rest encryption, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) based network-level security and isolation for node-to-node communication. All certificates are deployed and rotated automatically by the service throughout the life of the domain, without any additional operational overhead. 

The AWS Solutions team has updated the Data Lake Solution, an automated reference implementation that deploys a highly available, cost-effective data lake architecture on the AWS Cloud along with a user-friendly console for searching and requesting datasets. The solution now includes a federated template that allows you to launch a version of the solution that is ready to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory.  

You can now launch M5 instances types when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Amazon EC2 M5 instances are the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances. M5 instance offers a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad range of database workloads. 

AWS Storage Gateway is now available pre-installed on a hardware appliance, which you can buy directly from amazon.com, and manage from the AWS console. The appliance is based on a Dell EMC PowerEdge server with a validated configuration, and provides you an additional deployment option to the existing VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V or Amazon EC2 virtual machines available today.

Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Using Amazon Rekognition’s new face filtering feature, you can now have control over the quality and quantity of faces indexed for face recognition, thus saving on cost, reducing development time, and improving face recognition accuracy.

Cypress is claiming better audio from all-wireless earbuds – headsets without a wire between the transducers. According to the firm, which is sadly not naming names or numbers, the solution features a link budget that is 6dB better than competetors, resulting in up to twice the range – with the extended range improving cross-body performance …

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